LGBT News Cops Violently Assault Gay Men in Homophobic Bias Attack

Rakkaus · Jun 11, 2013

NYPD Captured on Video Violently Arresting Gay Man, Harassing Two Others: VIDEO| Gay News | Towleroad

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As if it hasn't been bad enough with all the homophobic hate crimes in NYC lately...don't go running to the cops thinking they will help you. These violent pigs probably won't even be disciplined after physically and verbally assaulting these guys for no reason other than being gay. The NYPD is totally out-of-control.

The New York Anti-Violence Project (AVP) is reporting on what they're calling a bias-motivated assault of three gay men by NYPD officers in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn on June 3.

Writes the AVP:
Three openly gay men, Josh Williams (pictured, below), Ben Collins, and Antonio Maenza, reported that they were walking past the 79th Precinct when an NYPD officer accused one of the men of public urination and attacked him, throwing him against a police car. The officer was joined by other officers who also attacked the man, throwing him to the ground and pepper spraying him while he was in handcuffs. The survivor was handcuffed tightly, causing lacerations. The survivor's injuries were treated at a hospital, where he was again restrained with wrist and ankle cuffs. The group of officers also arrested the other two survivors

Representatives from AVP, the LGBT Justice Project of Make the Road NY, Streetwise and Safe, the Safe OUTside the System Collective of the Audre Lorde Project, FIERCE, Communities United for Police Reform, Campaign to Stop the False Arrests, and the Brooklyn Community Pride Center is planning to hold a press conference on the incident on Tuesday afternoon.
The Village Voice has more:
The Voice has also learned that NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau started investigating after someone apparently associated with the precinct filed a complaint.

"This case is so extreme in how the encounter escalated so fast over something so silly and turned so violent," says Williams' lawyer Cynthia Conti-Cook. "Based on how the incident started, there's very little to justify such extreme action other than homophobia."

Slurs were used:
Maenza was watching the incident from the sidewalk and videotaping with his phone. "Josh is on the ground, he's surrounded by officers, he's been maced, and they pick him up and take him into the precinct," he says. "At that point, one of the officers called us 'faggots.'"

Collins recalled that the officer called them, "fucking faggots."

Handcuffed, temporarily blinded and bleeding, Williams was dragged into the stationhouse, and left in a holding cell. He was given a charge of resisting arrest. It took several hours for a paramedic to arrive to treat his injuries and by then, his wrists had swelled alarmingly.

While he was finally in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, he says an officer remarked, "We better not tell him where the soap is." After he was treated, he was taken back to the precinct, where he was fingerprinted and then sent to central booking and then arraigned at some point the following day, a Monday, more than 24 hours after the initial encounter.
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chrisV · Jun 12, 2013

i know a retired NYPD officer. he is the biggest asshole i know. he hangs a confederate flag outside his house, and his son has a confederate flag hanging in his room.

the son often tells me about how his dad used to abuse asians, and pull over black people for no reason.

i don't like cops

Ticklish Fish · Jun 12, 2013

-500 respect to cops

This is so lawless man ._.

BornInTexas · Jun 12, 2013

What's up with NYC lately? :S Not even the police can be trusted.

eatsleepclimb · Jun 12, 2013

I know a lot of really great cops but if you give a person a gun and power it is likely that they'll abuse it

Xochipilli · Jun 12, 2013

So defenseless. Poor guys.
Don't even know what I would do in this situation.

Pret Allez · Jun 12, 2013

Those cops just get fucking executed to set an example of the force. Straight up.

Revan · Jun 12, 2013

I am saddened to read this. Especially given the quality of the police in my city...just leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth...

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